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On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:16 +1000, Karl Kloppenborg wrote:<BR>
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A) I navigate to <A HREF="http://blah.com.au">blah.com.au</A> and is goes "can't connect to this server" I append www. to the domain (it ends up being <A HREF="http://www.blah.com.au">www.blah.com.au</A>) and I get their website.
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B)The reverse of this, I navigate to <A HREF="http://www.blah.com.au">www.blah.com.au</A> and it says "Can't connect to server", but I go to <A HREF="http://blah.com.au">blah.com.au</A> and it is all cool.
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There is no requirement to have a website on blah.com, as there is also no requirement to have one on <A HREF="http://www.blah.com">www.blah.com</A><BR>
It's just been the more expected way, you could put your website on foobar.blah.com for all the Web/DNS cares, but not many people will likely find it<BR>
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B) Where did the use of appending www. to the front of things originate from?
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google is your friend, this list is not a classroom<BR>
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C) also I see sometimes www1. or www2. on some websites, can someone explain these to me?
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irrelevant, you call it whatever you want, mostly this is used in some hosting companies so they don't need to think up silly custom names.<BR>
With so much phishing around these days, what would you trust www1.netbank, www2.netbank? or ... hotpies.netbank, fishnchips.netbank
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(Oh I hope mailscanner doesnt think i'm impersonating netbank now and tag this message as suspected fraud <IMG SRC="cid:1278293453.13701.7.camel@tardis" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":)" BORDER="0">)
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